The Irish element in The valley of fear

hints that he had to leave Chicago on account of certain crimes he had committed
there. Brother Scanlan an Irish name advises Brother McMurdo to turn to the
Bodymaster of Vermissa Lodge, Black Jack McGinty. When the former leaves the
train at his station, McMurdo wins the sympathy of the miners in the carriage by
furious invectives towards two policemen who travel in the same carriage, and
one of the miners accompanies him when they descend at the end station and
takes him ...